Lee Smith

Lee Smith, author of the acclaimed The Last Girls, delights with a tale of dry wit....

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, The Devil's Dream is an animated, lyrical novel that is meant to be savored as spoken word. Consummate storyteller Lee Smith's creation will delight anyone who enjoys the sound of language and a good story....

Although it has its dark moments, this lyrical, compassionate novel strikes a nostalgic chord in everyone....

Lee Smith is one of today's most critically acclaimed authors writing about contemporary life in the South....

Lee Smith delivers the heartwarming tale of three generations of women who record their lives in Christmas letters to the family....

A young North Carolina girl's life is shattered by the Civil War. As she grows into a refined, educated woman, she remains haunted by tragedy....

Author of many novels and short stories, best-selling writer Lee Smith has received numerous awards for her works, including two O. Henry Awards....

Lee Smith, one of today's finest writers in the Southern literary tradition, has been compared to Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor....

Having justly earned her reputation as a master storyteller, Lee Smith's name evokes images of authentic country folk struggling through some of life's most arduous tests....

Set deep in the rugged Appalachian Mountains, the Grundy of Lee Smith's youth was a place of coal miners, mountain music, and her daddy's dimestore....

Oral History, the lyrical saga of a Virginia mountain family, follows four generations of Cantrells over more than a century....

A consummate storyteller in the Southern tradition, Lee Smith tugs at her listeners' heartstrings with this haunting narrative that reads like a country ballad....

When she is thirteen years old, Evalina Toussaint, the orphaned child of an exotic dancer in New Orleans, is admitted as a mental patient to Highland Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina....